Neuk (/njuːk/): noun, Scots.
A community of and for neurodivergent artists. Their work focuses on advocating for neurodivergent people in the arts. Although based in Scotland, many of their events take place online.
A DIY organisation that facilitates remote events that centre crip, sick and disabled people. They also run a newsletter that publishes work by crip, sick and/or disabled people. They are guided by the principles of Disability Justice, as described by Sins Invalid.
An organisation creating space and solidarity for neurodivergent-identifying artists who work in (or with) performance, across discipline, career level, and location across Scotland. As a neurodivergent-led organisation, it is driven to support and facilitate neurodivergent community and culture within the Scottish performance sector, whilst nurturing and promoting the creative practices of neurodivergent artists in its network.
First started by Kai Syng Tan, the Network is a creative and inclusive space to explore the messy and magical entanglements between ‘neurodiversity’, ‘creativity’ and ‘research’, and the rich spectra of possibilities and intersections in between, and importantly, through not just an anti-ableist but decolonised, internationalised, anti-racist, anti-misogynistic perspective, while also being critical of the traps of essentialism and exceptionalism.
The alliance is a hub/co-creative platform to share, discuss, debate, motivate, interrogate and support one another’s practice and research as critical friends. Collectively seek to make neurodiversity in research and the contributions of neurodivergent researchers more visible, and make research culture more inclusive.
Dr Dyi Huijg has been running a series of ND and disability reading groups with an intersectional focus, including one dedicated to cripping pedagogy, ADHD, and many other topics. You can find more info about the current reading group schedule as well as reading lists and archived materials from past reading groups on their website.